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Since November 2017, there have been around 5,000 suspected cases of diphtheria among the Rohingya refugees sheltering at Cox’s Bazar in eastern Bangladesh after fleeing their native Myanmar. In humanitarian crises, disease is often the first emergency but this outbreak took aid workers by surprise.

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and partners have been strong supporters of Haiti’s immunisation programme. However vaccine coverage rate is the lowest in the Americas. Every day, almost 50 children under the age of five die, many from vaccine-preventable diseases. To increase coverage and access to vaccines, Gavi and partners are supporting the government with a plan to renew old cold chain equipment.

After five years of devastating conflict, Côte d’Ivoire’s immunisation rates are back to their pre-war levels. In this short film, originally played at the December 2016 Gavi Board meeting in Abidjan, Health Minister Dr Raymonde Goudou Coffie, explains her country’s rapid recovery.

Emmanuel Lasanah, supervisor of the outpatient department at Redemption Hospital and the first person vaccinated against Ebola in Liberia, gives a first-person account of being a contact tracer during the epidemic.